Pelléas and Mélisande
Pelléas and Mélisande is a Play in five acts of Maurice Maeterlinck, created with Paris on May 13rd, 1893 with the theater. This opera is a timeless drama, with an atmosphere of legend: the characters appear without stories, one does not know their past. The general history is a history of love and jealousy between three people: Mélisande, Golaud and Pelléas. All starts, in a forest where Golaud is lost whereas it drove out, it meets Mélisande in tears. Golaud takes it along with him in its castle, where his/her brother is, Pelléas. With time Mélisande and Pelléas will fall in love, but all is only unvoiced comments, they will acknowledge only at the end their love, where they are surprised by Golaud, insane of jealousy, which kills his/her brother.
Other settings in music
In addition to Debussy, several type-setters were also inspired by the work of the Belgian poet :- Gabriel Fauré, which composed in 1898 a Incidental music for the part (continuation for orchestra Opus 80),
- Jean Sibelius, in another incidental music (opus 46),
- Arnold Schönberg in 1903, in its Symphonic poem of the same name (opus 5).
To note
- an adaptation in Comic S.A. realized by P. Craig Russell.
External bond
- '' Pelléas and Mélisande '' on Ebooks Free & Free